I haven’t gotten much time to sit and watch TV lately, but what I have seen of the new Verizon Vios service on the TV side, I’m loving it. It blows cable out of the water.

  Got a letter from Comcast today, informing me that Verizon is selling it’s fiber optic and telephone land line operations, or some portion thereof, to Frontier communications.

  This smells like desperation. Should I be concerned? I remember when Verizon bought our phone line from GTE, nothing bad happened then.

  I suppose it might put a few people off of switching to Verizon’s Vios from Comcast, especially with the unfortunate name of the new provider. Frontier? Are they going to come down main street with guns blazing, “This here Internet ain’t big enough for the both of us!”. Are they going to censor my Internet service? “We won’t be havin’ you lookin’ at no dadblame dance-hall girls on our range! ‘specially the ones of questionable virtue!”

  Anyhow, my contract still saves me about $230 total over the first year, including the $100 visa card I had better actually get. The phone has free LD, voice mail, Caller ID, etc. The internet is much faster. The TV has channels galore, including TV land, which we had been pining for. So yeah, so far, I recommend the switch. We will see what happens when those rascals from Frontier ride into town.